Experts say maps do not show burial grounds on site of Bessborough housing project

Bord Pleanála oral hearing told childrens’ burial ground does not overlap land earmarked for 179 apartments on a former mother and baby home estate

Experts have rejected claims that a children's burial ground overlaps land earmarked for apartments on a former mother and baby home estate in Cork. Picture: Denis Scannell

Experts have rejected claims that a children's burial ground overlaps land earmarked for apartments on a former mother and baby home estate in Cork.

Cartographic expert and chartered surveyor, Michael Flynn, and land surveyor, Paudie Barry, both said the words "children's burial ground", which appear on a 1949/1950 trace map of Bessborough, relate to an existing burial site near the estate folly, and not to the area of land over which they were written.